Historic sites

Monk's House

United Kingdom East Sussex Lewes

Monk's House
Photo: Oliver Mallinson Lewis from Oxford, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The weatherboarded cottage in the village of Rodmell that was the country home of the writer Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard. It is furnished as they left it, with paintings by her sister Vanessa Bell; Virginia's writing lodge is in the garden.


It makes a good pair with Charleston, Vanessa Bell's farmhouse nearby. The house is small, so expect to wait at busy times.

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